[Ecosystem Partnership] GBase becomes the only database vendor in China to complete compatibility validation with VMware

GBase and VMware recently joined forces to verify compatibility between several flagship products—GBase 8a, 8s, and 8d—and VMware vSAN, forming a commercial solution built on virtualized deployment and releasing a joint white paper. This achievement brings together China's leading database technology with world-class virtualization and software-defined storage, marking a major breakthrough for software-defined storage (SDS) in commercial database environments. The solution addresses the rapid, changing storage demands of the mobile internet and big data era, and points the way toward the next-generation data center.

Leveraging virtualization to deliver significant business value for database users:

● Efficiency: Computing, storage, and network resources are integrated organically, eliminating dedicated components such as traditional disk arrays and Fibre Channel switches, resulting in more efficient resource utilization. The solution is validated and optimized for VMware vSAN all-flash SSD workloads. It also reduces energy consumption and saves data center space. With pre-tuned and tested configurations, you can respond quickly to changing business needs without spending extensive time on deployment, tuning, and performance optimization.

● Simplified management: Streamlines deployment and validation of server, storage, and network resources, enabling rapid deployment of cloud resource pools. Simplified operations and straightforward configuration help avoid manual configuration errors.

● Built-in high availability: Takes full advantage of VMware vSphere® vMotion®, VMware vSphere® High Availability (vSphere HA), VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS), and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance (vSphere FT) capabilities, providing flexible high availability for enterprise applications.

● Enhanced business continuity: Supports online database migration with zero downtime, as well as synchronous intra-city and asynchronous remote disaster recovery, all through a fully certified solution.

Technology trends

Data centers built on virtualization and software-defined storage are set to become the most sought-after solutions in the data market. The vSAN solution helps data-intensive enterprises dramatically improve data management and analytics capabilities while significantly increasing system availability. It also provides massive scalability, elasticity, and high availability for big data platforms—delivering performance comparable to physical hosts while reducing hardware and operational costs many times over by eliminating storage switches, disk arrays, and associated expenses.